Strauss: Renée Fleming in Concert - DVD

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Strauss: Renée Fleming in Concert (OA1069D) (2011)<br /> <br /> Renée Fleming (Soprano); Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann<br /> <br /> Gloriously affirming the Salzburg Festival’s long-standing reputation as a supreme musical event, this concert honours one of its founding fathers, Richard Strauss. Renée Fleming, Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra unite for a programme of song, opera and tone poem, genres central to the composer’s extraordinarily fruitful career. Fleming interprets four of his songs with orchestra, including the deeply moving Befreit, and provides a substantial taste of perhaps her finest<br /> operatic role, Arabella. New vistas then open as Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic take the spectacular mountain journey mapped by the composer in his titanic Alpine Symphony.<br /> <br /> "Strauss's ingenious orchestral passages are highlighted." (BBC Music Magazine)<br /> <br /> "Thielemann, whose reading is satisfyingly spacious, reveals the work's structural mastery in intermingling and transforming its many themes." (Gramophone)<br /> <br /> "This is a rare case of visuals enhancing the listening experience...there is still no soprano I would rather hear in the soaring lines of 'Traum durch die Dämmerung' and 'Gesang der Apollopriesterin'." (The Financial Times)